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The media and health education: Did Nigerian media provide sufficient warning messages on coronavirus disease?
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- Nigerian media coverage of medical progress on the development of COVID-19 vaccine.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2021Article
- Modeling predictors of COVID-19 health behaviour adoption, sustenance and discontinuation among social media users in Nigeria.Telematics and informatics · 2021Article
- Health Advertising during the Lockdown: A Comparative Analysis of Commercial TV in Spain.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Mental Health Issues in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Responses in Bangladesh: View Point of Media Reporting.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Previous studies on media coverage of health issues hardly recognize the role of time in moderating media contents. Instead, scholars most often examine how news media report health issues. In this study, we recognized the role of time by taking into account how media report differs based on when a global outbreak is confirmed in a country and when it is not. We focused on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and examined six media-two TV stations, two newspapers and two radio stations. We content-analysed 537 stories and found that there were few stories about the virus before it was confirmed in Nigeria. But as soon as Nigeria recorded a confirmed case, the number of stories tripled. We also noticed that story format and recommendation on health behaviour were also closely linked to the COVID-19 status of Nigeria. However, we did not find an association between Nigeria's COVID-19 status and policy recommendation among the media studied. Therefore, this study concludes that Nigerian media did not provide sufficient health warning messages on COVID-19 before its spread to the country.
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